Biography | Yang Yuanqing — The Xuhui Campus Where the Surgeon's Son Took Computer Science

People file Lenovo's chairman as a Zhongguancun product who appeared with the IBM deal. The named bachelor's degree is on this old campus at 1954 Huashan Road. Yang Yuanqing was born in Hefei, Anhui, on 12 November 1964. Munzinger and both the English and Chinese Wikipedia pages agree on that date and city. His parents were trained as surgeons. Several independent profiles note that their state salaries in those years sat at the same level as manual wages. The family wanted medicine. A university friend of the household pointed him at computers instead. He took the computer-science course at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and finished the bachelor's in 1986. That year still belongs to this Xuhui ground. The Minhang campus had not yet swallowed the undergraduate load. OpenStreetMap pins the campus at 31.20089, 121.42839, on the Huashan Road frontage. The Department of Computer Science itself was only formally stood up in 1984, while he was already enrolled. What stands here now is a heritage campus, not a private house and not a current office. The later Lenovo years do not rewrite the degree. The plaque version of the life starts in Beijing. The registrar version starts on this block. Photo: campus building on the Xuhui grounds, via Wikimedia Commons. Portrait: George Albrecht, 13 May 2010, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.